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I wonder how much Jamie Bryson costs the UK taxpayer every year? He’s hardly ever out of the courts, as he takes legal action after legal action over very important life changing subjects such as dual language signage in the new Belfast Central Transport hub, or a new pre-school or playgroup in Irish, or a GAA pitch were everyone can play camogie, hurling etc. He’s not a lawyer, a barrister, a KC, or a solicitor. He’s not called to the bar, and has no legal qualifications, but he sure know how to take up an immense amount of court time.
Even the #UUP and #DUP avoided this one, simply stating they would raise it in Stormont.
On his Xitter timeline he uses inflammatory rhetoric like ‘divisive, agressive demands, imposition’ and claims the use of Irish is some kind of attack on Unionism. No one is forcing him to read anything in Irish ever.
#NIPolitics #TUV #UKPolitics #Think32 #UI
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0lp

A man pictured from the shoulder up. He's wearing a check-patterned grey-blue suit with a dark tie and light shirt. He has short, close-shaved light-coloured hair. He is standing in front of a building which is blurry in the background,
BBC NewsGrand Central Station: Irish language signs paused over legal actionLoyalist activist Jamie Bryson lodges challenge over approval of £150,000 for Irish language signs at Belfast station.

A pity. Beattie struck me as a decent man, a man who wanted a pragmatic and constructive unionism, one in which people not of a traditionally unionist background could also feel at home.

I don't know if that's achievable. I do know that, if I wanted to preserve the Union, I'd be trying to achieve it.

One wonders when people will twig that the TUVification of unionism is a great gift to the shinners.

#Ireland #NorthernIreland #NIPolitics #UUP

irishtimes.com/politics/2024/0

The Irish Times · Doug Beattie steps down as UUP leader due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ with party officersThe Upper Bann Assembly member said leading the Ulster Unionist Party had been a ‘lonely’ experience at times

Speaking as a Northern Irish Protestant, some Unionists have completely colonial attitudes to the place.

The North of Ireland does not need these sorts of politicians; it does not need the Union at all.

And Unionism, if you like that sort of thing, would be better and more successful without them.